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"fast full text search" is something better provided by software that specializes in fast full text search. Rdbms for the email use case is kind of orthogonal

• Avamander 7y ago
  A RDBMS can provide a fast full text search alongside other useful features, can you elaborate how it's orthogonal? Oh, and I also dislike even the idea that I have to find some "specialized software" to have basic functionality in my e-mail client. That's why most still suck a*.
  • ses1984 7y ago
    You probably want something that checks for similarly spelled words, maybe natural language processing, whole or partial word matching, indices on all this, etc. If all you want is to grep your email, that's different, I think you can accomplish that with pine or other text mode email clients.
  • gnaritas 7y ago
    > Oh, and I also dislike even the idea that I have to find some "specialized software" to have basic functionality in my e-mail client. No you don't, you're asking for exactly that by wanting an RDBMs for your email client. That's about as specialized as it gets.